Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Because love is real, and it happens everywhere. It even happens here.”

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

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For the Love of April French is an immensely readable book with a strong authorial voice that is a wonderful fluffy romance playing in the D/s kink realm. It’s the story of April and Dennis who have a temporary no-strings sex agreement, but Dennis is secretly trying to woo April, which is a great trope to build an emotions-first BDSM romance around. Dennis and April are wonderfully flawed and human characters. Aimes writes with her characters humanities front and center. April and Dennis can be […]

“And once it had seemed like enough, like such a precious thing, just for April to exist, for April to be allowed to exist.”

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

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CBR13Bingo: They/She/He (author and MC are trans) and my first BINGO! You know the hurt/comfort trope? This book felt like that for me, where I was the hurt person and this book was doing the comforting. It’s centered on a queer friendly kink community in Austin and a very loving and accepting relationship, but it also smacks you in the face with the realities of what’s like to be a trans woman who doesn’t pass. April moved to Austin to give herself a fresh start, and, […]

“Aren’t you that notorious bad girl April French?”

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

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We meet April and Dennis just before they meet each other. The first couple of chapters of For the Love of April French capture perfectly that feeling of endless possibility when you meet a potential new romantic partner – all the wonder of meeting someone you want to know better and all the fear that they will be awful, or reject you when they get to know you. It’s an expansive, joyful, terrifying feeling and Penny Aimes nails it. For the Love of April French […]



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